While the graphic is spectacular, it is misleading.
The real impactor was only 6.5 miles in diameter, the one in the graphic is several hundred miles from scaling with the earth below.
It is a planet killer in the picture.
While the graphic is spectacular, it is misleading.The real impactor was only 6.5 miles in diameter, the one in the graphic is several hundred miles from scaling with the earth below.
Yep. That one is an Artist Misconception :-)
That monster impactor could almost represent a collision resulting in a new moon after enough time elapses for the discharged material to coalesce.
Or whatever knocked Uranus 90° on its side.
Or whatever caused Venus to virtually halt rotation and spin backwards.
Besides altering the axial tilt, the Earth's rotation, and the orbital path itself, something that big would knock the crap out of the metallic core at the center of the Earth halting it's spinning and thus the protective magnetic flux it generates would vanish.
About as bad a day as you could describe. Only a Hillary victory would come close to the expected damage.
It may have only been 6.5 miles in diameter, but it left a crater 120 miles wide.